THE GOOGLE CHICAGO OFFICES
By Mathilde Meynieu
We
had the opportunity to visit the offices of Google in Chicago, with Matt Jones.
We were able to understand the functioning of this multinational and the way it
works.
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Matt Jones:
Team
lead and Principal Account Manager, Travel Vertical at Google in Chicago,
Illinois. He
studied marketing in Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School.
« With hands on experience in global business analysis,
strategic consulting, project management, sales strategy & execution,
stakeholder management, program development and team member
mentoring/leadership. Exhibiting consistent high-performance across
increasingly complex roles, demonstrating the ability to drive significant
value and build strong client relationships. »
"Our
mission is to organize the world’s information
and make it universally
accessible and useful"
Google
Inc. is a company based on September 4th, 1998 in the Google garage in the
Silicon Valley, in California, by Larry Page and Sergueï Brin, creators of the
Google search engine.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational
conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously
owned by or tied to Google.
Beyond the search engine, Google offer free of
charge of numerous software and services (email, office automation
continuation, video, photo, blog…) and finances by the advertising from the year
2000 with a principle of link sponsored in search results and an invoicing in
the " cost by click " for them announcers. However, the increasing
situation of monopoly and the questions of private life worry more and more, of
the occasional Internet user up to certain big organizations.
Google
has many employees, it changes every week but now Google has become over 54 000
employees in 70 offices worldwide. For instance, Matt Jones has just visited 17
offices under 70.
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For
Google, the competitors are a positive point for the company. Indeed, they
allow Google to innovate always. The engineers are constantly urged to create
new processes, new products and services. The competition thus allows
increasing the productivity in the company. Google is thus constantly in search
of innovation and of production.
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Google
in some figures:
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20 billion pages crawled daily
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100 billion searches every month
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1 billion YouTube visits every month
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100 hours of content uploaded per minute
About Mentoring,
Google use also mentoring which is a personal
developmental relationship; in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable
person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. It is a
learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and
someone who wants to learn. Making a successful
leadership transition requires a shift from the confines of a clearly defined
operational network.
They must also accept that networking is
one of the most important requirements of their new leadership roles and
continue to allocate enough time and effort to see it pay off.
Google
is a Leadership opportunities with Women@google* by
creating the right environments, programs and policies can support women in pursuing
their dreams and building tools that change the world. Google uses also a
global rotation program where 20% of time, so one day per week, the employees can do an another
job in the company, to create events to involve creativity. There is a very
good working atmosphere, the employees know each other well and share the same
offices. Moreover, there is a strong team spirit by urging the employees to
pass of good time with activities outside the company, as by creating sports
teams and team events. Besides, they have good benefits, for example they have
free lunch for employees and guests. It permits to employees to talk to each
others. Furthermore, they work in depth with agencies and clients.
* https://www.google.com/diversity/women
To conclude, the mentoring is very important within a company
as we saw it in the multinational Google, he allows the leaders to teach to
know how to them make for their mentee. Indeed, it is a key of the success in a
company. It is an implemented way that allows creating links, to develop
capacities and skills of each. All this in a good working atmosphere that
allows the employees to be effective and productive. It was very interesting to visit the offices of Google and to learn better on the concept of Mentoring.
I wish to thank Matt Jones
and Valerie Beck.
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